Director of Engineering, Okta

AI Takeoff Team

$246-378k

Actual salary range is dependent on location. The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in Canada is between:$224,000—$308,000 CAD

Senior and Expert level

Chicago

San Francisco Bay Area

Toronto

Management platform securing resources from cloud to ground

Be an early applicant

Management platform securing resources from cloud to ground

1001+ employees

B2BSecurityInternal toolsSaaSIdentity

Be an early applicant

$246-378k

Actual salary range is dependent on location. The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in Canada is between:$224,000—$308,000 CAD

Senior and Expert level

Chicago

San Francisco Bay Area

Toronto

1001+ employees

B2BSecurityInternal toolsSaaSIdentity

Company mission

To improve the connections between people and tools to make companies more productive and secure.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

8+ years building and shipping identity, security, infrastructure or developer-focused products in a high-growth organization
Proven engineering leadership and team management experience, including hiring, developing and motivating high-performing teams
Strong executive communication and influencing skills, with a track record of driving outcomes across organizational boundaries and bringing cross-functional teams together
Proven experience working directly with enterprise customers and translating customer problems into technical solutions
Deep identity domain expertise — you know, or can quickly get up to speed on, the latest identity protocols, standards, architectures and patterns
Experience operating in high-ambiguity, high-velocity environments where priorities evolve quickly and execution matters
Strong product and customer orientation, with the ability to balance customer urgency, technical quality and long-term scalability
Experience with AI/agentic systems, AI security or emerging identity patterns is a strong plus

What the job involves

Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence
This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk
The AI Takeoff Team at Okta is the tip of the spear, creating a rapid, high-bandwidth feedback loop from our customers to product and engineering
We are customer-first by design: working directly with customers to understand real-world problems, rapidly build and validate solutions, and accelerate the capabilities that ultimately become part of the Okta platform
We move at startup speed, operate with intensity, obsess about customer outcomes, and own our numbers — from pipeline generation to sales, adoption and retention
You’ll operate like an engineering leader at a startup within a larger enterprise: moving quickly, staying close to customers, and delivering with urgency while bringing the broader Okta organization with you
In this context, we are seeking a driven, customer-focused engineering leader to accelerate our roadmap delivery
This is a career-defining role for the right leader looking to directly impact the growth trajectory of the industry leader in identity and AI security
Work closely with our top customers and AI Forward Deployed Engineering to rapidly translate customer needs into differentiated AI capabilities and deliver them to production
Partner closely with broader Okta Engineering, Product and Design to ensure capabilities are production-ready and meet Okta standards for security, reliability, scalability and quality
Build, grow and mentor a small, highly focused team of AI Takeoff engineers operating with high autonomy and urgency
Serve as a senior technical SME in customer engagements, technical evaluations and complex sales processes
Lead complex customer escalations with a bias toward rapidly identifying root causes and delivering durable solutions
Own the technical strategy, architecture, and execution for the AI Takeoff engineering roadmap, balancing customer urgency with long-term scalability and production quality

Our take

Okta started off as an identity company where organisations, large and small, could tap into the company to have a single sign-on interface to access all cloud applications now centralised. Okta has since expanded to provide identity management at the device as well as the server level.

The new approach towards network security is increasingly based on identification and authentication, and Okta is on track to become the go-to vendor in the space. It aims to do so by developing products that enable people to access applications and other tools more smoothly and securely than ever before.

Okta has taken strides towards expansion through significant employee growth and shuffling executive leadership. The company has also made lateral moves such as tackling governance concerns, opening up new paths for revenue.

Freddie

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

19% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.7)

Trustpilot (1.4)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)

Sep 2015

$75m

SERIES F

Jun 2014

$75m

SERIES E

Total funding: $229.3m

Company benefits

Work from home opportunities
Health + Wellness
Financial Benefits
Pay + Incentives
Time Off
Everyday Living
Resources

Company HQ

The East Cut, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Todd McKinnon

(Co-Founder & CEO)

VP of Development at Salesforce.com and has nearly a decade of experience in various engineering and leadership roles at PeopleSoft.

Frederic Kerrest

(Co-Founder & Vice Chairman)

Worked in Sales and Business Development at Salesforce.com, and previously co-founded high-tech consulting firm Meridian Global Solutions.

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